A former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, has said former governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, and former presidential candidate, Peter Obi, don’t like each other....Read Full Article >>➤
According to a post he shared on Facebook, their ego will be their undoing if they form a coalition. Omokri said this amid speculation that Obi may dump the Labour Party to join El-Rufai in the Social Democratic Party (SDP) ahead of the 2027 presidential election.
He said, “These guys are too ego-led to have a successful coalition. The APC collaboration worked in 2015 because Asiwaju Tinubu was willing to suppress his ambition for Buhari to go first. “Who of these guys will be willing to sacrifice their ambition for the other? El-Rufai will not accept playing second fiddle to Obi and vice versa.
“Nasir chose the SDP because he wants to run in 2027. If he had not wanted to run, he would have joined a more mainstream party. He wants to carry out a hostile takeover of the SDP, as Obi did with Labour in 2023.
“Peter Obi is also donating money left, right, and centre for this purpose.
“They don’t like each other, and they are not strategic enough to collapse their structures for the benefit of a consensus candidate, be it them or someone else. Neither of them will be willing to do the commonsensical thing and step down for the other, which means they will cancel out the other.
“President Tinubu would still handily defeat them at the polls regardless of their plots. But I do not think it will even get to that. My postulation is that their egos will defeat them before the election and that they will only run, if at all, just to have standing to contest the results on the courts.”
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